June 1 - 30, 2018
“Girl Power (1992) shows artist Sadie Benning’s aim to reach a wider audience with her video works. Informed by the “riot grrl” movement of the 1990s, an aggressive underground movement led by young women who espoused female empowerment through art, music, zines, and activism. Girl Power is a collage of sound and black-and-white imagery. The work refuses to visualize female passivity and politeness in favor of a range of views of radicality and rebellion in an amalgam of footage from TV, film, commercials, security cameras, and home movies as well as disturbing scenes of racial violence and homophobic speeches.”
On View: June 1, 2018 | 10 am – 5 pm
Landmarks Video Series at the UT Visual Arts Center (VAC)
23rd and Trinity Streets
Austin, 78712 Texas
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